44 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
A note on campanulas in general may be useful. The 
best of them are hardy border flowers, that need no parti- 
cular care, and thrive well in any ordinary good soil, but 
cannot endure to be starved or over-much shaded. In 
planting a border, preference in the first instance should 
be given to such sorts as C. latifolia, C. tracheliun, 
C. géomerata, C. nobilis, C. persicifolia, Foy the rockery, 
the most important, to begin with, are C. carpathica, C. 
garganica, C. pumila, and Co rotundifolia. The last-named 
is the “harebell” of the hedgerow and the roadside and 
the woodland waste, which we have met with near Hayfield, 
in Derbyshire, in many shades of blue, white, and pink, 
but the plants and seeds we saved of the curious varieties 
lost their distinguishing characters when removed, so that 
when planted out on raised banks of sandy soil in the 
garden they all produced blue flowers. 
